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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History.

Tur, Katy (author).

NBC reporter Tur was the “road warrior” who followed Donald’s Trump campaign from beginning to end. Those who watched her reports know that “little Katy” was sometimes called out by Trump at rallies, where she was penned in with the rest of thepress corps and insulted by the crowd. In her introduction, Tur says about the Trump phenomenon, “I won’t try to explain. I will just tell you what I saw.” And this becomes frustratingly true, as the book goes on. This is a travelogue through Trump ’16, and it only covers what Tur covered herself. There’s very little about policy issues, Hillary Clinton, even behind-the-scenes campaign backstabbing. What the book does well, however, is capture the blur of a campaign and the buffeting of journalists’ personal lives (though, as Tur, who broke up with her boyfriend and left London for the chance to follow the Trump train, understands, a campaign can be a career maker). Tucked within the well-trod territory is the book’s strongest element: the disturbing on-site reports of how deep the hatred ran at the rallies. Tur communicates how shocking it was to see ordinary people become unleashed in crowds, calling Clinton the c-word, or even screaming “assassinate the bitch.” She writes about what it feels like to need private security and to have a Trump supporter spit in her face, and that resonates powerfully. A thin but very personal first draft of history.